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VU-Arkansas postgame notes

March 4, 2010

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2010 SEC Women’s Basketball Tournament
Game 3 – Thursday, March 4 – 6:30 p.m.
#12 Arkansas vs. #5 Vanderbilt

TOURNAMENT NOTES

– This was the first SEC Women’s Basketball Tournament to go into overtime since the 2004 semifinal between Georgia and Tennessee.

– Tonight was just the fifth overtime game in the history of the SEC Women’s Basketball Tournament, and the first to involve either Arkansas or Vanderbilt.

VANDERBILT NOTES

– Vanderbilt is now 21-9 on the season, 41-24 all-time in the SEC Tournament , and will advance to play LSU in Game 7 Friday at 6:30 p.m.

– Junior guard Jence Rhoads led the Commodores with 21 points, the 13th time this season she has led the team in scoring and her 23rd game in double-figures.

– Senior guard Merideth Marsh scored 19, her 24th double-figure game, and seventh in a row.

– Rhoads and Marsh both played all 45 minutes of tonight’s game.

– Vandy won the battle of points in the paint 30-22.

– The score was tied seven times in tonight’s game, while there were eight lead changes.

– Vanderbilt is now 5-0 all-time in games played at the Gwinnett Center Arena.

ARKANSAS NOTES

– Arkansas is now 12-18 overall, 9-19 all-time in the SEC Tournament

– Senior guard Charity Ford broke into the 900-point club tonight by scoring 21 points. She had 896 heading into tonight’s action.

– Ford’s 21 points led the Razorbacks, the 12th time this season she has led the way in points scored.

– Freshman forward Dominique Robinson joined Ford as the only UA players in double figures. She scored 16 points, one away from her career high of 17.

– Tonight marked the third overtime game for the Razorbacks this season. UA lost at Oklahoma 86-87 on Dec. 5, and defeated Alabama, 66-62 in Tuscaloosa on Jan. 24.

– Arkansas was able to convert 15 Vandy turnovers into 20 points on the offensive end.

– The UA bench outscored its VU counterpart 24-13.

– This was the fifth consecutive season that Arkansas has bowed out on the first day of the SEC Tournament.